We had tickets to see The Wedding Singer at a small theater in Duluth, GA. We went early so we could have lunch first. We had lived in the Duluth area a few years ago, and it was fun to see how things had changed. We wound up eating lunch at a small hole-in-the-wall called Rexall Drugs. It's a drug store on one side and a restaurant on the other. I used to eat lunch here at least once a week. The place looked the same, the menu was exactly the same - except for the prices which, of course, had increased. We had a fun lunch - grilled cheese with tomato for me, pancakes and eggs for Dom.
Then on to the theater. It's a tiny theater, with chairs on either side of the stage and movie-type seats in the center. The stage is floor level. We had front row seats (Dom will have no other) and the stage was about 3 feet in front of us.
You might remember last summer when we saw The Music Man at the Cumming Playhouse. The girl who played Marion had such a fantastic voice. I think Dom developed a little crush on her! Anyway, she was playing the lead in The Wedding Singer, so of course we had to go.
This was a completely different type show. Full of singing and dancing - a lot of dancing - 80's type music, Boy George, Madonna, Sammy Hagar, Prince, Billy Idol. The cast was terrific. So full of energy!
And Lauren (Dom's girlfriend) was terrific. In The Music Man, she sounded exactly like Shirley Jones from the movie. In this show, her voice was completely different. She sang in a lower octave and pulled off the rock music perfectly. So versatile and so talented. She even blew a kiss to Dom!
We spoke to her after the show. She told us that she's looking for professional roles now, and is auditioning for Theater of the Stars this week (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Fiddler on the Roof), and also auditioning for the Lyric Opera. We wish her all the best, but hope that we'll see her in more community theater too.
Just a super fun day!
3 comments:
It sounds like Dom's girlfriend belongs on the professional stage.
Our nephew works in Duluth - I'll have to ask him if he knows about Rexall Drugs.
Sounds like a fun evening. We used to live in St. Ives in Duluth, but I never went to the Rexall Drugs.
Hugs,
Kat
The Wedding Singer? I have never seen that on stage. I would LOVE to!!!!
Fiddler and Joseph - two of my favorites. Jeremy was Joseph the other summer in the local theater production in Brandon, FL and just absolutely blew me away. I hope he'll have time to do some theater stuff now that he's in DC.
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